Racism | Racism
Feb.27.2010
In this powerful follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues against "colorblindness" and for a deeper color-consciousness in both public and private practice. We can only begin to move toward authentic social and economic equity through what Wise calls "illuminated...
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Dec.08.2009
Maybe a bit like Wind in the Willows, or Stewart Little, except with a socio-political slant. Catrick, a cat living in cat society, sets out to spread the message that animal species can and should live in harmony. All the while, the rodents are rising up against cat rule. Catrick and his friends...
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Aug.05.2009
This is a chapter from my memoir, Into The World: a young girl's journey of faith and adventure. It is about my childhood adventures traveling the world with my family during the turbulent 1960's. My father was a Christian writer who wanted to gain inspiration for his books. He packed up our family...
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Jun.03.2009
In these personal, evocative, original essays, thirty contemporary black and white, young and older writers--from Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award winners to brand new voices--share their intimate racial experiences as they take unflinching looks at society and themselves. An incisive, powerful...
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Apr.19.2009
At the center of The Nature of Blood is a young woman, a Nazi death camp survivor, devastated by the loss of everyone she loves.
A German Jewish girl whose life and death are shaped by the atrocities of World War II...her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for...
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Apr.14.2009
In sweltering heat of September of 1970 on Legion Field, the USC Trojans and the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide played a game that defined the emancipation of the South from its sordid history of racial segregation. When USC's black running back Sam The Bam Cunningham ran roughshod all over...
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Jan.16.2009
DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron’s poetry forms a lyrical conversation with an ominous and omnipotent...
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Nov.17.2008
Warning: do not read this book at a wake, on a precipice, or with a full bladder. Unless you're a humorless fan of Cher, Michael Jackson, Barbra Striesand, or Mick Jagger, Wilson's turbo, heat-seeking essays about fame, the bane of our commodified culture, will induce bent-double, breathless...
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Nov.15.2008
Years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister's suicide.
What caused her to take her life? Why did she marry a man she barely knew, giving him a claim to the family home? Why did...
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Oct.03.2008
"Tennessee Reed is a brand new star in the galaxy of our spirit-shining for all of our people." -Simon Ortiz, author of Telling and Showing Her "Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder-and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights." -Al Young, author...
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